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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.
- Photographer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only things I make money on are speeches and books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never buy plane tickets out of a country until I'm in the country, so I get on the ground, figure out what I need, where I'm going, how much time I need, and schedule as I go along.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've taken pictures in at least 14 countries, and nowhere have people told me 'no' more than New York City.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
- Branded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done commercial work for Amtrak. However, that was branded as Stanton. I stipulated at the very beginning that it was not going to involve 'Humans of New York,' that I wasn't going to promote it on 'Humans of New York.' So nobody who follows me really even knows that I did it.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020